Quotes from Amanda Palmer

There's no blueprint; getting married doesn't make you boring, having kids doesn't make you boring, having money doesn't necessarily have to make you boring.

Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.

I've always been a creative workaholic. I have never had a period of my life where I didn't have at least half a dozen projects going on at once.

I remember being a teenager and being really impressed by "let's sit around and b*tch" people, and I have so little time for those people nowadays.

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.

If you stuck me in a room and gave me art-making tools but told me no one would ever see the results, I don't think I'd have much desire to make art. What I do comes from a deep desire to be seen and to see others.

In some way, my fundamental feeling about music is that it's impossible to put a price tag on it. Human beings made music before they made a lot of other things, including tools.

If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.

When you trust people to help you, they often do.

If you love people enough, they will give you everything.

I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.

Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.

I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it, you come. If you don't like it, you don't have to.

I kind of rely on my artist friends to make my physical music worth buying by having them all come together and create beautiful artwork that everyone is gonna want to own to support my record.

When you connect with people, they want to help you.

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.'

I have used Twitter for so many things, from places to stay, places to go, things to do, things I need, medical advice, you name it. Especially when I'm on tour, it really feels like I'm being taken care of by half a million people. It is like having a mom.

I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are all these ingredients to the business that have nothing to do with writing songs or playing an instrument.

One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

I think I've been addicted to openness since long before my rock career. I was terrible as a teenager. I used to go out of my way to make people uncomfortable with personal details. I was always fascinated by the idea that we have these weird, random boundaries between what we do and don't show.